Protect WordPress Admin area with Login LockDown Plugin

According to author’s description Login LockDown WordPress plugin adds some extra security to WordPress by restricting the rate at which failed logins can be re-attempted from a given IP range.

Login LockDown records the IP address and timestamp of every failed login attempt. If more than a certain number of attempts are detected within a short period of time from the same IP range, then the login function is disabled for all requests from that range.

This helps to prevent brute force password discovery. Currently the plugin defaults to a 1 hour lock out of an IP block after 3 failed login attempts within 5 minutes. This can be modified via the Options panel. Admisitrators can release locked out IP ranges manually from the panel.

Here’s are some of the features:

Login LockDown records the IP address and timestamp of every failed login attempt.

If more than a certain number of attempts are detected within a short period of time from the same IP range, then the login function is disabled for all requests from that range.

This helps to prevent brute force password discovery.

Currently the plugin defaults to a 1 hour lock out of an IP block after 3 failed login attempts within 5 minutes.

And you can change the options as your requirement

Finally admistrators can release locked out IP ranges manually from the panel.

How this Plugin is Useful

If bad guy attacking your blog knows less about your site installation (WordPress version, plugins list and its version) he has to spend more time and make more efforts to hack your site. And thus will catch hold of the IP address and will not allow any other future attacks.

Most Often Mistakes done

Mistake that people often do is installing any kind of free WordPress Plugin on their server. Free WordPress plugin doesn’t mean that it’s secure. Before installing any plugin you need to make sure that it’s credible and helpful for you.

Some people even don’t use any plugin but they will have to have hundreds of free WordPress plugins installed on their site. What they don’t realize is any of this plugins might have a malicious PHP script. Once you activate the plugin the malicious PHP script will run and cause harm to your site.

And who knows how worse it can be. I’ve a friend whose website got hacked by this. Not too long ago. The Malicious PHP script which caused harm to his site not only did different weird things but also changed the file permission of all the folders and files. Consequently, his site became so vulnerable that it can be hacked by other people easily.

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